Engineering & Construction

The winners of this year’s Samsung C&T Site Photo Contest are in and we have some spectacular snapshots of the company’s construction projects around the world. Participants captured images of their colleagues in an amazingly diverse range of situations, whether persevering under the blazing sun, working high in the sky, or enjoying a moment of […]

With a booming global market for Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG), the challenge for construction companies has been keeping up, which involves building facilities such as LNG terminals and storage tanks to cope with the supply-demand cycle. One of the very interesting focal points of LNG growth has been South and Southeast Asia. Indeed, LNG demand in those […]

Samsung C&T (KL) Sdn Bhd, a subsidiary of Samsung C&T Corporation on June 28 received the Letter of Award for the construction of a podium building for Lot L, L1 and M, Kuala Lumpur City Centre (“KLCC”) from Arah Moden Sdn Bhd, a whollyowned subsidiary of KLCC (Holdings) Sdn Bhd. The awarded contract amount is […]

Marble has been prized for thousands of years as an expression of luxury and the material that helped produce some of the world’s greatest artistic sculptures. Like fine wines, marble varieties and their features have become strongly associated with their locations. One such example is statuario marble, which can only be quarried in the Italian […]

“There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort,” Jane Austen wrote in her 1815 novel Emma. That may ring true for many people, but it does not mean that every house or apartment offers the comfort of home. That kind of comfort is made up not only of furniture but also memories – […]

When South Korea announced the commercial launch of 5G technology in early April, it was widely reported as the first country to do so. The technology has been hailed for its capacity to offer data speeds around 20 times faster than its 4G predecessor, meaning movie downloads can be measured in seconds and average latency is down to 1 ms […]

Color is a power which directly influences the soul,” Russian artist Wassily Kandinsky wrote. It should be little surprise, then, that building designers take color so seriously among their many aesthetic considerations. Standing out in a metropolis is a challenge for anyone – or anything. This is where Samsung C&T’s Product Design manager Lee Mi-jin comes […]

Algeria’s Naama Combined Cycle Power Plant (CCPP) took a major step towards completion this month, after its gas turbine was successfully fired up for the first time – signaling the starting point of a trial run that will lead to providing electricity to a million people. The facility’s full generation capacity of 1,163MW can be […]

While in the West, many consider a private house with a garden to be the pinnacle of their housing dreams, things are very different in Northeast Asian countries like Korea. Here, apartments rule the roost. Why? Well for a start, they offer enormous convenience for Korean city dwellers – with 24-hour security, on-site maintenance staff […]

With heavy machinery, workers, and materials constantly in motion, construction sites may seem chaotic at first glance. But a closer look will reveal subtle patterns amidst the cacophony. Like individual musicians in an orchestra, workers and machines each play a specific role and collaborate in harmony towards a common goal. But how is coordination possible […]